Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan

Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan

A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection 'Late into the night we talked of love, of its complications. In my father's eyes they were imaginary. . . This conception of rapid, violent and passing love affairs appealed to my imagination. I was not at the age when fidelity is attractive. I knew very little about love.' The French Riviera: home to the Beautiful People. And none are more beautiful than Cécile, a precocious seventeen-year-old, and her father Raymond, a vivacious libertine. Charming, decadent and irresponsible, the golden-skinned duo are dedicated to a life of free love, fast cars and hedonistic pleasures. But then, one long, hot summer Raymond decides to marry, and Cécile and her lover Cyril feel compelled to take a hand in his amours, with tragic consequences. Bonjour Tristesse scandalized 1950s France with its portrayal of teenager terrible Cécile, a heroine who rejects conventional notions of love, marriage and responsibility to choose her own sexual freedom.

A funny, thoroughly immoral and thoroughly French tale * The Times *
The novel that paved the way for the permissive society..one of the literary sensations of the century * Daily Telegraph *
Francoise Sagan is the French F. Scott Fitzgerald * Guardian *

Françoise Sagan was born in France in 1935. Bonjour tristesse (1954), published when she was just 19, became a succès de scandale and even earned its author a papal denunciation. Sagan went on to write many other novels, plays and screenplays, and died in 2004.

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ISBN 13	9780241951569
ISBN 10	0241951569
Title	Bonjour Tristesse
Author	Françoise Sagan
Series	Penguin Essentials
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Binding type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2011-04-07
Number of pages	112
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